India

1,001 100 Year Old Postcards of India

A Parsee Lady
A vast collection of over a thousand postcards of India from the golden age of the medium, 1895-1915. Most are in color and have been professionally restored. Major Indian artists like M.V. Dhurandhar and Ravi Varma were early postcard artists, as were premiere European publishers like Raphael Tuck & Sons.Read more

Old Photographs of Hyderabad

Hyderabad Palace
A compelling set of images of Hyderabad before and just after Independence. Many of the nicest color images are from LIFE Magazine. A number of Lala Deen Dayal albumens too. Well worth waiting for the page to load.

Connecting Histories in Afghanistan

peshawar Marketplace
Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
by Shah Mahmoud Hanifi
Columbia University Press e-book, 2008

There are two unusual things about this work.Read more

Hyderabad in Old Postcards

Char Minar
by Liz Mckendrick

The City of Hyderabad in central India may seem an unlikely city to be the subject of a postcard related article but it is a very interesting city, steeped in history famous for its minarets and its pearl bazaar. Pearls from all over the world are said to come to Hyderabad because the artisans of the city are skilled in piercing and stringing pearls without damaging them.Read more

Shades of Matisse

brushing-teeth.jpg
When I first saw this photograph, I knew it was by an Indian photographer. The overwhelming presence of the pattern, the unselfconscious stare of the woman cleaning her teeth, the angle - these were not things you would expect from a European photographer. The compression of planes reminded me of Matisse and the Japanese prints that inspired him.Read more

India Through Photography

Bourne Lucknow
Two Times, Two Photographers: Samuel Bourne - Xavier Guegan

The exhibition provides a fascinating insight into the changing face on India over the last 150 years. 'In India through Photography: Two Times, Two Photographers' Newcastle-based academic Dr Xavier Guégan compares images of modern day India with images taken in the 1860’s by the famous photographer Samuel Bourne, providing a fascinating insight into the development of visual art from colonialism to post-colonialism.'Read more

Photo Icons I

Photo Icons I (Icon (Taschen)) (v. 1)
Author: Hans-Michael Koetzle
Publisher: Taschen (2008)
Binding: Hardcover, 2008 pages

Although there is nothing here about India, Photo Icons is one of the best single books on photography available today. Each of its 20 well-written essays decodes a single historical photograph using fresh historical research and profound insight.Read more

A Lurid Magic Lantern Slide

India 1857 by Joseph Boggs Beale
The Sepoy Rebellion by Joseph Boggs Beale, a powerful magic lantern slide, was published in 1899. Beale was America's foremost Victorian magic lantern artist. It was his only slide of India among the 2,000 that he drew.Read more

Souvenirs of Asia

Taj Senior
PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE FAR EAST 1840-1920 by William F. Stapp
A 1994 article from the George Eastman House IMAGE magazine recently made available as a PDF. Published in connection with a Photokina exhibition, it includes a long article on photography in India, China and Japan and brief biographies of photographers.Read more

Where Three Dreams Cross

150 Years of Photography
150 Years of Photography from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh

An exciting new exhibition in London at the Whitechapel Gallery from January 21 through April 11 2010.Read more

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